Car-mover



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- G. S. CURRIER.

CAR MOVER.

Patnted May 15,l 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

GEORGE s. GURRIEE, oE GARNETT, KANsAs.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,757, dated May 15, 1888.

Application filed September 29, 1887. Serial No. 251,050. (No model.)

To all w/tom it may concern:

.Fe it known that l, GEORGE S. OUREIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garnett, in the county of Anderson and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Oar-Movers; and I do hereby declare-the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it ap: pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to car-movers, or devices for moving freight or other cars by manual exertion; and it has for its object to provide asimply-constructed,easilyoperated,and durable device of the class named, whereby one or two men may easily move a heavilyladen car; and it consists of the parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure lis a perspective view of my device in operative position; Fig. 2, an enlarged detail perspective view of a part of the device, and Fig. 3 a detail view of a modiiication.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A represents a portion of the end of a railway-car, and B one of the rails of. a railroadtrack.

C represents two steel wheels having ratchetteeth a formed in their peripheries. These wheels are bolted on each end of a cylinder, D, of any-suitable material, by bolts b, passing through the wheels and cylinder. The wheels are of greater diameter than the cylinder and are vaccurately concentric therewith, so that jectionsf, are loosely pivoted, one on each side4 the teeth a and a portion of the wheels project beyond the surface or periphery of the cylinder. Through opening formed in the center of the cylinder and wheels a shaft, E, is passed, and on this shaft levers F, having lateral proof the wheels, the shaft passing through the lateral projections, land on its ends the arms e of a push-bar, G, are also .pivoted. .The object of the lateral projectionsvf is to throw the bodies of the levers outward from the wheels, so that they may be freely moved on the shaft without interfering with the heads or ends of the bolts b. At a suitable point on the adjacent sides of levers F pawls are pivoted, so that their working ends may freely enterV the spaces between the teeth a on the wheels when ymovedV in one direction and slip past the same when moved in the opposite direction. These `pawls are preferably gravity4pawls, or such as fall by their own weight into position; but

they may be held in position by springs, if desired, as shown in Fig. 2. Between washers c on the ends of bolts b and the facesof the Wheels C rubber springs d are placed, so-that the wheels may move outwardly on ythe shaft E. The object of this construction is to adapt the machine or device to grasp the rails of a track, as when the sa-me is placed over a rail and forced downward thereon the wheels will spread apart sufciently to let the cylinder vrest on the rails, while the wheels will grasp or clutch the rail on eaehside. In Fig. 3 a metallic spiral spring, d', is shown on the bolt instead of a rubber spring. The bar G has a V- shaped notch, h, formed in its end, of suitable size to fit the bottom of a car at its end, and a cam-lever, L, is pivoted to said bar near its notched end, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and to the eccentric portion of this lever one end of a hook, m, is secured, while its other end is adapted to be hooked Ito the end beam of the car, underneath the latter.

vIn Voperation the notched end of bar G is fit'- ted to the end of the car to be moved and hook m caught on thebeam of the same and clamped there by the lever L, and the machine or device .placed on one rail of a railroad-track and forced down onthe same until the cylinder rests on the upper surface of the rail'and the wheels embrace or clutch the sides of the same, as shown in Fig. 1. One or two men then grasp the levers F and raise and lower the same, the upward movement causing the pawls to catch into the teeth a and force the wheels around and with them the cylinder, thus moving the device along` the rail and pushing the ICC cylinder D, the wheels C, bolted to said cylinder and having teeth a on their peripheries, the levers F, the pawls H, pivoted to said 1evers, and the notched pushbar G, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a car-mover, ofa cylinder, notched or toothed wheels, bolts for securing said wheels to the ends of said cylinder, springs surroundingsaid bolts,levers and pawls for rotating said Wheels, and a pushbar, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in acar-mover, of a cylinder, toothed wheels, bolts for securing said disks to the ends of said cylinder, springs inf carrying a hook, substantially as described..

In testimony whereof Iafix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE S. CURRIER. Witnesses:

STEVE PEIROE, WALTER Davis.

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